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About Old Protestant Cemetery
Gravestones record the lives of traders, missionaries, artists and naval figures from several countries, including George Chinnery and Robert Morrison. Morrison Chapel adds a small religious building to the setting. A slow circuit allows the inscriptions and differences between memorials to tell the story, without treating the burial ground as a general recreation space.
What to look for
- Two terraces contain varied gravestones and memorial inscriptions.
- Morrison Chapel forms a separate architectural feature beside the cemetery.
- The memorials of Chinnery and Morrison connect the site with art and translation history.
Background & history
The Old Protestant Cemetery (Chinese: 基督教墳場; Portuguese: Cemitério Protestante) is a cemetery in Santo António, Macau, China. It was established by the British East India Company in 1821 in Portuguese Macau in response to a lack of burial sites for Protestants in the Roman Catholic Portuguese colony. It is the last resting place of the artist George Chinnery, missionaries Robert Morrison and Samuel Dyer (his wife Maria is buried at the Old Protestant Cemetery in Penang), Royal Navy captain Henry John Spencer-Churchill (son of the 5th Duke of Marlborough and great-great-granduncle of Winston Churchill) and US Naval Lieutenant Joseph Harod Adams (grandson of the second president of the United States, John Adams, and nephew of the sixth, John Quincy Adams). Humphrey Fleming Senhouse, a captain in the Royal Navy, is also buried here, as is John Robert Morrison, son of Robert Morrison, who was appointed as Acting Colonial Secretary of Hong Kong but died eight days later in Macau from fever.
Excerpt from Wikipedia: Old Protestant Cemetery (Macau) · Wikipedia contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Selected introductory sentences; formatting simplified. Background information, not current visitor-service advice.
Location & getting there
Getting to Old Protestant Cemetery
The cemetery entrance is on Praça de Luís de Camões, beside the Luís de Camões Garden and Casa Garden area. Follow the public access into the burial ground and keep to the paths.
Combine your visit
Suggested order for the visit:
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Morrison Chapel exterior
Begin with the religious setting.
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Lower memorial terrace
Read the earlier gravestones.
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Upper terrace
Compare the later memorials and tree-lined layout.
This is an editorial sequence of named spaces or places. It does not imply a verified walking connection or promise opening, ticket availability or a journey time.
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Visitor information adapted and edited from Wikipedia contributors, “Old Protestant Cemetery (Macau)” · CC BY-SA 4.0. Source revision 1254834223.
Visitor information adapted and edited from Wikivoyage contributors, Macau/Peninsula · CC BY-SA 4.0. Source revision 5237853.